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What Is American Foreign Policy in the Middle East?

Originally posted in Dr. Kadhim's blog, at here. The longstanding United States foreign policy in the Middle East has been focused on a...

Debating Russia's Aims in Syria

There is a debate within U.S. policy circles about Russian president Vladimir Putin's strategy in Syria. While all agree that Putin...

Magna Carta: Is it worth the bother?

Eight hundred years ago, royal scribes were busy making exemplifications of Magna Carta—which rebellious barons had forced King John to...

The THAAD Debate Returns

During his visit to Seoul this month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sent South Korean policymakers into a tizzy when he suggested to...

Lebanon’s Refugee Burden

In the tiny Lebanese village of Bar Elias, about two dozen Syrian women with solemn, worry-lined faces, some with infants in their laps,...

THAAD on the Peninsula

U.S. plans to move forward with deploying its foremost advanced missile defense system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system...

James Mann on President George W. Bush

In his latest book, author James Mann takes on the George W. Bush presidency, a presidency defined by the terrorist attacks of September...

China’s Maritime Silk Road Gamble

Ever since Xi Jinping announced the creation of a Maritime Silk Road in an October 2013 speech to the Indonesian parliament, China’s...

King Abdullah: A Saudi education revolutionary

This is a repost from Al Arabiya. From the outside, the tan brick and glass mid-rise office building in a suburb of Virginia seems...

Is the Whole World on Fire?

This is a repost from www.fpri.org. “I am a very old man, and I have lived through almost the entire century,” wrote Isaiah Berlin in his...

Is Egypt a Rising Tiger on the Nile?

This is a repost from Al-Arabiya. The people of Egypt had spoken. During eight days in September, Egyptians from all walks of life came...

Is the advent of ISIS inevitable or reactionary?

Executive summary of a speech given in a seminar at the House of Commons, London 20 November 2014. *Emirhan Yorulmazlar Whether the...

On Realism, Old and New

This article is a repost from The American Prospect Magazine. This article appears in the Fall 2014 issue of The American Prospect...

Punching Above Your Weight in International Affairs

This blog has been cross-posted from the Tulane University Center for Inter-American Policy & Research. At a recent event in San José...

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